Fortunately its easy to get N root-terminals in VT-mode;because controlling the <XwinManager> needs more training than to landan aircraft..Any major <control program> should show the user WHERE YOU ARE. TC's only shows, after the user very carefully [to avoid capturing apps from other Desks] opens the <XwinManager>.I tried to make a listing/table of the pattern of where the mouse landedwhen opening the <XwinManager> from each of 6 Desks..It seemed random/complex ?!

No we don't want absurdities like M$ or KDE with-bouncing-monkeys.Before my systems were stolen, my preferred WindowManager was BlackBox[now obsoluted by fluxbox] which like TC's had the <window treeinside the mouse>, with only a small <panel> identifying the currentDesk, and taking much less area than TC's <appsMenu>..BB's appsMenu was INSIDE-the-mouse, and non intrusive, and being atree, could cater for Many and rationally classified apps.

What is the trick to navigate TC's window-tree without unintentionllymoving apps between Desks ?

Here's the start of a possible algorithm [formal description of HOW2].The X-display-space is a 2 level tree containing:1. one or more Desktops: D2. zero or more Windows: W, per D.To identify the number of the currently displayed D :.....To examine the currently contained windows in Dn ...To search for the D containing window:W ...To move window:W from Dn to Dm ....To avoid windows being unintentionally moved between Desktops, while searching the tree...